Thousands of people zoom past Eden, North Carolina every year on their way to somewhere else, completely missing a city where rent averages just $762 a month.
This tiny Rockingham County city sits right there along the Virginia border, minding its own business while offering some of the most affordable living in the state.
Eden came into existence when three separate mill towns, Leaksville, Spray, and Draper, decided to merge in 1967 and create something new together.
Someone with either great faith or a fantastic sense of irony named it Eden, and here we are decades later discovering they might have been onto something…